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TV host Sabarna killed herself by slitting her wrists she wrote in her suicide note that she was struggling to land film opportunities. The show ran for four years and ended in 2017.Ī number of popular Tamil actors took their own lives in the recent past. Priyanka’s most popular role till date was as Jyothika in Vamsam that also starred Ramya Krishnan. The couple did not have any kids, which is reported to be the main cause of troubles and tension within the family. She got married in 2015 but was living separately from her husband for the last few months due to difference of opinion. An India Today report suggested that the actor was under a lot of family pressure. It is not clear if a suicide note has been recovered.Ī case has been filed by Chennai Police and investigation has been started. The actor who found fame with Tamil TV show, Vamsam, was allegedly facing trouble in her marriage. She was found hanging from a ceiling fan at her home by a domestic help. But they're hopeful that it's still not too late to change the system.Popular TV actor Priyanka was found dead at her residence in Valasaravakam, Chennai on Wednesday morning. Petrified of bearing the burden of debt and unemployment, Yadav came to the decision to end his life. In March, TV anchor and actor S Sai Prashanth committed suicide at his residence in Chennai. Issues come up in terms of labour agreements and producers suffer at the end of the day," says Khushbu, adding, "It's not the way out to save a 2,600-strong industry." Saberna is the second popular TV actor to have found dead this year. We face a conflict with Film Employees Federation of South India. "Karnataka has a separate body, while we don't. Polimer and Raj TV air only dubbed serials to lower their costs.Īccording to the Federation of Small Screen Technicians, regulatory methods may also hold promise.Īndhra Pradesh only allows 30% slots for dubbing serials, while Karnataka has banned dubbing serials. Producers are hardly ever there, and the channel almost always take a call just to cut costs and never to invest in content," she points out. "We need more producers, and the dubbing union must also support us. The more the viewers, the more the money and this is making Tamil TV serials replaceable.Īctor Khushbu Sundar says it all comes down to one thing. We are very content driven and don’t believe in grandeur, but tastes have changed,” admits Radhika. Some of the technicians do it without consulting the union and in small dingy rooms,” Radhika says.Ĭonsidering producers aren’t very supportive, is sponsorship a way out? “Sponsorship depends on what people want to see. “This has put a lot of people out of jobs. Who wins? Just the 200 dubbing technicians and the artists. In one scene, an actor is clothed skimpily, we need to compete with that? And a producer said it was okay for her to wear it but not Tamil actors,” she says, explaining the double standards that harm the jobs of many silver screen actors. “The storylines of the Hindi serials are extremely controversial and barely relatable. “The same happened in Sri Lanka, where it began feeding into people’s livelihoods,” Radhika says. How much does it cost for Hindi serials to be dubbed? Rs.10,000 an episode.

Hindi serials, however, are shot at rates upwards of 50 lakh, with lavish sets, costumes and dolled up actors. Quality serials don’t come cheap - production costs for one episode of a Tamil TV serial ranges between Rs.60,000 and 2 lakhs. The investment is obviously a lot more,” she says. “Channels talk numbers – they push us to compete with Hindi content, which we obviously can’t. Veteran TV actor Radikaa Sarathkumar, a name to reckon with, and a person who took Tamil TV content to its zenith with ‘Chitthi’, says that they can’t win.
